by Donna Swagerty Shreve The year was 1988 and I left the confines of the classroom to go in and out of other teachers’ classrooms to demonstrate and teach them better math techniques. My exhausting job had many perks and…
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Carlos, the Student with so Much Potential, Yet Too Many Strikes Against Him
by Donna Swagerty Shreve In 1982 Lodi Unified created a Gifted and Talented school for students who tested with a certain intelligent quotient and tested well on standardized tests. The students’ parents had to complete the process by signing up…
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The Start of My Teaching Career
By Donna Swagerty Shreve My first classroom experience was in a sixth grade. The teacher was a Japanese gentleman who I secretly ended up calling “Mr. Shitta”. He taught me what not to do as a teacher. The first day…
17 Dates
by Donna Swagerty Shreve I first saw John walk into the U.O.P. band room his freshman year. He was tall, dark and quite striking, yes, good looking. He played in the trumpet section and I sat across the room in…
I Remember Clifford
by Donna Swagerty Shreve I had been a teacher consultant several years before, after leaving the classroom for good, I thought. This was the year education became a political football in California. The governor and Superintendent were from opposite political…
She Made Her Mark From the First Day
by Donna Swagerty Shreve The year was 2002 and I greeted 150 new eighth graders on the first day of the school year. I had a seating chart for each period and I tried to learn as many names as…
Just Teaching Teachers
by Donna Swagerty Shreve The year was 1988 and I left the confines of the classroom to go in and out of other teachers’ classrooms to demonstrate and teach them better math techniques. My exhausting job had many perks and…
Homeless In My Own Backyard
by Donna Shreve 2019 Eight years ago in 2011, a woman in her 40s followed a car into our gated complex. She was riding a bright pink bicycle with a wire basket up front that carried her backpack. It was…
More Proof
by Donna Swagerty Shreve written in 2017 My husband and I were watching television the other evening and the phone rang. Because of bundling our telephone and computer service, the called flashed up in the right hand corner of the…
A Day of Charity; 2,105 words
by Bradford Shreve 2017 I signed up to be a van assistant. The idea was sold to me as a fun day preparing food with my friends in a big industrial kitchen and I would be responsible for packaging and…
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